On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Alaconius <[email protected]> wrote: > One of the things this thread has got my mind wondering about - is whether > or not one can adapt the rules from WORLD TAMER'S HANDBOOK for Traveller's > New Era series books. In it, there are rules for how much labor is > available, how much is required for construction projects, food production, > raw materials excavation/production (Heavy industry), as well as finished > goods (Light industry).
I've just managed to get my paws on a copy of said handbook - and have been a busy little burrowing rodent, fiddling away with the presented system, hammering on the assumptions, and suchlike. Even without re-adjusting the part of the system on agriculture for use in algae-based hydroponics on an airless weatherless world, without replacing human-type people with human-like robots and human-level AIs that use power instead of food, and such, it's offers some insights into how a colony's infrastructure needs to be divvied up. For example, by assuming an initial colony of 20 people and working backwards, it's possible to start with what conditions offer the best quality of life in that system and end up with what sort of capital outlay and size of equipment to bring on the initial colonization trip. (Though converting that from "d-tons" of volume into mass requires an extra assumption, of how dense packed-up factory equipment is; I'm sure I've got that noted down somewhere or other...) And, once the colony is in place, how it can start improving its infrastructure and expanding - first by increasing the capital-infrastructure so that fewer colonists can do more, freeing more to concentrate on more than day-to-day necessities; and then by getting ready to expand as the population goes up; and then getting ready to build ships and creating separate daughter colonies. Overall, it may be tied to a particular tech-system, and have certain other flaws and limitations, but it fills a hole in GURPS somewhere between Vehicles, First In, and Far Trader, which I haven't found a source for anywhere else. Thank you for the recommendation. Thank you for your time, -- DataPacRat lu .iacu'i ma krinu lo du'u .ei mi krici la'e di'u li'u traji lo ka vajni fo lo preti _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
